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 Hello everybody,                                                               
        
 I have connected a Thermal label Printer-Intermec EasyCoder 601XP to my PC 's 
paralel  
 port and created a printer session using Client-Access. The application we are 
        
 installing has to print labels containing text & barcodes.                     
        
 There are 2 options in the application to be used prior to label printing that 
allow   
 initialisation of the printer.                                                 
        
 (the 1st option performs an initialisation & the second send constants to the  
        
 printer). This operation is only necessary once.                               
        
 The first option produces a spool such as this one:                            
        
                                                                                
        
 verboff                                                                        
        
 open "AUTOEXEC.BAT" for output as [1                                           
        
 print [1,"SYSVAR(18)=0"                                                        
        
 print [1,"MAP 12,0"                                                            
        
 print [1,"SYSVAR(25)=0"                                                        
        
 print [1,"NASC 850"                                                            
        
 print [1,"INPUT ON"                                                            
        
 print [1,"FORMAT INPUT CHRÂ(60),CHRÂ(62),CHRÂ(13)"                          
           
 print [1,"error 1003, "+chrÂ(34)+"  CHAMPS HORS       ETIQUETTE"+chrÂ(34)    
          
 print [1,"error 1022, "+chrÂ(34)+"  TETE LEVEE     BAISSER LA TETE "+chrÂ(34 
          
 print [1,"error 1031, "+chrÂ(34)+" PLUS D'ETIQUETTE"+chrÂ(34)                
          
 print [1,"error 1005, "+chrÂ(34)+" PLUS D'ETIQUETTE"+chrÂ(34)                
          
 print [1,"SETSTDIO 4"                                                          
        
 print [1,"OPTIMIZE"+chrÂ(34)+"BATCH"+chrÂ(34)+"ON"                           
          
 print [1,"open "+chrÂ(34)+"CONSOLE:"+chrÂ(34)+" for output as [11"           
          
 print [1,"Print [11,"+chrÂ(34)+chrÂ(34)                                      
          
 print [1,"Print [11,"+chrÂ(34)+chrÂ(34)+chrÂ(59)                            
           
 print [1,"print [11,"+chrÂ(34)+"     XXXXXXXX     "+chrÂ(34)                 
          
 print [1,"print [11,"+chrÂ(34)+"    XXXXXXXX      "+chrÂ(34)+chrÂ(59)       
           
 print [1,"close [1"                                                            
        
 print [1,"beep : beep : beep"                                                  
        
 close [1                                                                       
        
 reboot                                                                         
        
                                                                                
        
 The second spool sends constants to the printer e.g:                           
        
 LAYOUT INPUT "EC6RECF.LAY"                                                     
        
 NASC 850:AN 7                                                                  
        
 PP 0001,2270:PL 1800,5                                                         
        
 PP 0001,1970:PL 1800,5                                                         
        
 PP 0001,1620:PL 1800,5                                                         
        
 PP 0001,1370:PL 1800,5                                                         
        
 PP 0001,1020:PL 1800,5                                                         
        
 DIR 2                                                                          
        
 PP 0700,1970:PL 0350,5                                                         
        
 PP 0900,1620:PL 0250,5                                                         
        
 PP 1100,1620:PL 0250,5                                                         
        
 PP 1450,1620:PL 0250,5                                                         
        
 PP 0800,1370:PL 0350,5                                                         
        
 DIR1:AN 1:FT "SW060BSN":MAG 1,1                                                
        
 PP 1300,2320:PT VAR1Â                                                         
         
 AN 1:FT "SW080BSN":MAG 2,1                                                     
        
 LAYOUT END                                                                     
        
                                                                                
        
 After this, one is allowed to send the label spools to the printer. However I 
have     
 been unsuccessful in making this work. After the first spool is sent, we can 
see the   
 message 'Initialising...' being displayed on the printer's control panel. But 
when     
 trying to print labels, the corresponding spool files just disappears. Mo 
message is   
 displayed.                                                                     
        
                                                                                
        
 I have also connected this printer to the n/w, using a n/w card. I have 
created an     
 outq  and used a WSCST object I created using some code sent by the printer 
supplier,  
 the code looks like this :                                                     
        
                                                                                
        
                                                                                
        
 0001.00 :WSCST  DEVCLASS=TRANSFORM.                                            
        
 0002.00               :TRNSFRMTBL.                                             
        
 0003.00 :Space                                                                 
        
 0004.00  Data = â20âX.                                                     
            
 0005.00 :EWSCST.                                                               
        
                                                                                
        
 When I try to print a label, by sending the spool file on he appropriate outq, 
the     
 status of the spool stays SND indefinitely.                                    
        
                                                                                
        
 Has someone had any similar experience, with this thermal label printer, or 
any other  
 one. Any hint would be most welcome. thanks                                    
        
                                                                                
        
 Note : We are on V5R1                                                          
        
                                                                                
        
                                                                                
        
                                                                                
        







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